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Nishihara Marine Park, T-Rex, and Mom Guilt

Little Man flew back in this past weekend. The summer is almost over, school starts in 2 weeks, so we finally got him back. I don’t normally have mom guilt, but I tend to get it really bad right before he leaves and right after he comes home. I feel guilty if they go to the sitter’s, even though they both love her. She has boys his age and a great time is had by all. I just feel guilty like I should be spending all this time with him. They go to the sitter’s on the two days a week that I volunteer, so it’s not like I take them for any old thing. Still, mom guilt! Ahh!

I’m trying to think of fun things to do this week. My mother-in-law gets here next week, so I’ve got our days planned. This week however, I’m grasping for things to do. I decided we would do some park hopping and hit the beach up today. How can you not have fun doing that? As usual, I planned our route, including our lunch stop. The first 2 parks were actual parks, but they had no playground. We all know that doesn’t count as a park to kids. The third park had a small playground, nothing to get excited about it. They did play for a bit. We were getting ready to leave when we found a slide! Little Man loved it. Little Missy would say she was going down, climb the stairs, and promptly change her mind once she was at the top.

The next park was a loser too. No playground, so we headed towards the beach, with a McDonald’s stop first. I’m all for trying new restaurants, but with two hungry kids at lunch, McDonald’s is the way to go. Plus they have that awesome Basil Mayo dip for nuggets. Seriously.

After lunch, while driving towards the beach, Little Missy spotted a dinosaur. I figured we’d check it out, expecting it to just be a drive by. It was a playground! How I have not ever seen or heard of this one is beyond me. The dinosaur was a whole piece of playground equipment in itself. The park also had a slide and swings and stuff, but the T-Rex was the popular kid of the day.

The beach was next. We went to the Nishihara Marine Park. It was a gorgeous public beach. It also happened to be the most crowed beach I’ve been to yet. We swam and played for a good while, then went to check out the playgrounds. There was a big one across the street and another one actually in the Marine Park complex. Both were pretty big.

I think it’s safe to say that I wore both of them out. Heck, I’m wore out! Why do I feel so guilty though?